So today Mom and Aunt Marlene and I spent the day seeing approximately 85% of the Exhibition floor and about 10% of the vendors at the Festival. Very exciting.
Mom and I return tomorrow for the Vendor Extravaganza!

I am so tired.
Here, have an exceptional and amazing Yin Yang quilt. SO BEAUTIFUL.

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I've got a set on Flickr full of hundreds of these...


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My parents and I are preparing to depart for our annual picnic on the Art Car Parade route. This year we are trying to get there extra early to get a shady spot, and see the cars before they drive. I hope to get more interesting photos this year than just snaps of the sides of the cars. We'll see.

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East Texas weather is unpredictable. This morning it was sunny and gorgeous and I had all the fans running and windows open as I had breakfast and did a bit of sewing. By the time we got home from our jaunt up to Magnolia, I needed to be bundled up in my fleecy pajamas, and it's raining ( Read more... )

I'm finally making some progress on my quilting. I cleaned the craft table over Thanksgiving break, and now I have plenty of room to work. I've got some great fabrics, but am a bit stymied by handling faces in small quilts ( Read more... )

From Emily: Top Five Things I've Made (with pictures!) All images are clickable.

1. Victorianna (aka My First Doll). I bought the pattern at the Houston Quilt Festival when I was 13 or 14, and made the thing by myself. I taught myself how to use a curved quilting needle, Mom helped me learn how to tea-dye muslin, and I had a lot of adventures ( Read more... )

So, in the course of revitalizing my spiritual practice, cleaning up and setting up an altar, and generally journaling, I thought I might write something about the upcoming Samhain season, and also about some of my recent reading and pondering. (Nature of the universe, polytheism vs. pantheism, meditation and the difficulties therein, religious ( Read more... )

a) Toddlers are hilarious.  Lando's biggest thrill when I visited was to have me sit in the armchair, then he would go to the other end of the room, start shrieking, and run run run run to throw himself onto my lap. I flipped him upside down, then, of course, which only made the game better.  And then he'd do it all again. And again.  And again ( Read more... )

I am being encouraged to blog, in general and in specific relating to fandom, activism, and crafting. So here I am trying to get back into the groove.  There are some things that I should accept and get over as long as I am blogging, things that I think have been contributing to my "write and delete before posting" habits of late ( Read more... )

It's time for my Art Car Parade 2010 Photos of Dooooooom!  The set is at Flickr!


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